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Plantwide and Departmental Overhead Rates; Job CostsSmithson Company uses a job-order cost...

Plantwide and Departmental Overhead Rates; Job Costs

Smithson Company uses a job-order costing system and has two manufacturing departments— Molding and Fabrication. The company provided the following estimates at the beginning of the year:

 

Molding

Fabrication

Total

Machine-hours

20,000

30,000

50,000

Fixed manufacturing overhead costs

$800,000

$300,000

$1,100,000

Variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour

$5.00

$5.00

 

During the year, the company had no beginning or ending inventories and it started, completed, and sold only two jobs—Job D-75 and Job C-100. It provided the following information related to those two jobs:

Job D-75:

Molding

Fabrication

Total

Direct materials cost

$375,000

$325,000

$700,000

Direct labor cost

$200,000

$160,000

$360,000

Machine-hours

15,000

5,000

20,000

Job C-100:

Molding

Fabrication

Total

Direct materials cost

$300,000

$250,000

$550,000

Direct labor cost

$175,000

$225,000

$400,000

Machine-hours

5,000

25,000

30,000

Smithson had no overapplied or underapplied manufacturing overhead during the year.

Required:

1. Assume Smithson uses a plantwide overhead rate based on machine-hours.

a.     Compute the predetermined plantwide overhead rate.

b.     Compute the total manufacturing costs assigned to Job D-75 and Job C-100.

c.     If Smithson establishes bid prices that are 150% of total manufacturing costs, what; bid price would it have established for Job D-75 and Job C-100?

d.     What is Smithson's cost of goods sold for the year?

2. Assume Smithson uses departmental overhead rates based on machine-hours.

a.     Compute the predetermined departmental overhead rates.

b.     Compute the total manufacturing costs assigned to Job D-75 and Job C-100.

c.     If Smithson establishes bid prices that are 150% of total manufacturing costs, what bid price would it have established for Job D-75 and Job C-100?

d.     What is Smithson's cost of goods sold for the year?

3. What managerial insights are revealed by the computations that you performed in this problem? (Hint: Do the cost of goods sold amounts that you computed in requirements 1 and 2 differ from one another? Do the bid prices that you computed in requirements 1 and 2 differ from one another? Why?)

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